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Government can really both do practical things and send powerful signals. And that’s the role we try to play is by getting in and doing it ourselves first, learning the lessons, showing what can be done. We think we inspire community action and hope as well.

– Shane Rattenbury

Paddy Manning

I want to introduce 100 Climate Conversations. The series presents 100 visionary Australians that are taking positive action to respond to the most critical issue of our time, which is climate change. We are broadcasting today in the Boiler Hall of the Powerhouse museum in Sydney. Before it was home to the museum, it was the Ultimo power station. Built in 1899, it supplied coal powered electricity to Sydney’s tram system into the 1960s. If you look around the hall, unique industrial features remain, including the imposing chimneys you entered between and coal cart rail tracks that run underneath this stage.

The Powerhouse acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the ancestral homelands on which our museums are situated. We respect their Elders past, present and f

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ACT election candidate bake-off: Shane Rattenbury

Before visiting Greens Leader Shane Rattenbury at home, I knew that he’d attended Canberra Grammar on a scholarship, that he’d lived on the South Coast before moving here to take up that opportunity in 1984, and that he’d studied economics and law at the ANU.

I knew about his policies on renewable energy, on a comprehensive transport plan for Canberra incorporating but not limited to light rail, on homelessness and housing affordability and on trust in politics.

Like most Canberrans, I knew that Mr Rattenbury had entered the Legislative Assembly in 2008 and together with three Greens colleagues had supported a minority Stanhope Labor government in which he served as Speaker; and that as the sole Greens MLA had once more held the balance of power this past Assembly, forming a parliamentary agreement with Labor (led by Katy Gallagher and later Andrew Barr) that saw him join cabinet with ministries including Territory and Municipal Services, Corrections, Road Safety and more recently Education.

I did not know tha

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Shane Rattenbury

Shane Rattenbury MLA is an elected member for Kurrajong and the leader of the ACT Greens.

Shane was first elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2008, and has served as Speaker and crossbench MLA, as well as holding various Ministries.

Shane became an environmental advocate at a young age, inspired by campaigns to prevent ozone depletion, protect Antarctica and stop logging of native forests.

He joined the Greens while studying at the ANU, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics and Law.

Shane started working for Greenpeace Australia in 1998. In 2005, as head of their global oceans campaign, he led an expedition of ships to Antarctica to confront the Japanese whaling fleet.

In 2007, as International Political Director, Shane led the Greenpeace delegation at climate change negotiations in Bali, which successfully started the process for the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol.

When elected in 2008 Shane became the first Greens Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, and the first Green party speaker in any Parliament in the world.